11 Facts About Jon Ingold

Jon Ingold has written a number of plays, short stories and novels.

Jon Ingold began writing interactive fiction as a teenager, after searching online for information on Infocom and discovering the Inform programming language.

Jon Ingold published his first major work, The Mulldoon Legacy, just before starting a Mathematics degree at the University of Cambridge.

Jon Ingold continued to write IF during the university holidays and reviewed films for a student newspaper.

Jon Ingold later co-founded the company inkle, which has created several award-winning interactive stories, as well as the Inklewriter web tool for interactive fiction and the open-source ink scripting language.

Jon Ingold told Gamasutra that he had found potential players of interactive fiction were frustrated by the parser interface, which led him and his colleagues to develop Inklewriter as a non-parser-based alternative.

The protagonist of Jon Ingold's Fail-Safe is the only living person on a damaged starship, who makes a distress call and asks for instructions.

Reviewers considered that this premise was inspired by Infocom's mysteries such as Deadline, but that Jon Ingold's detective was distinguished by his moral ambiguity and concealment of information from the player.

Jon Ingold was the writer for Textfyre's The Shadow in the Cathedral, a steampunk adventure story that was one of the few commercially published interactive fictions of the 2000s.

All Roads is a 2001 interactive fiction game by Jon Ingold that placed first at the 2001 Interactive Fiction Competition.

Jon Ingold has published short fiction in several issues of Interzone magazine:.